The Lord of the Rings — The Burden

Commanded by the partners Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, this Bant (green/white/blue) 100-Card Commander Deck is about an object nobody in it can keep, and nine companions who are strong exactly as long as they stay together. Sauron, Saruman, the Witch-king, the Balrog and Shelob are colourless, like the Ring itself: things this box contains, not colours it plays.

• The One Ring: the bearer can't be blocked and can't be targeted by anything. Every use puts a burden counter on it, and at five burdens the bearer is exiled and the opponent to your left takes control of the Ring, with the same problem. There is no safe number of uses, only a decision about who gets it next. Twenty-five cards carry it, and Sam untaps a creature whenever it takes a burden.
• The Fellowship: nine companions of nine names, from Frodo to Peregrin. While it is unbroken, each gets +1/+1 for every other Fellowship creature you control. The first time one leaves the battlefield it is broken for the rest of the game: the survivors get +2/+2 and vigilance, and a second group of cards, Rohan's Riders included, only switches on from that moment.
• Two combos: Sam Carries Him Up the Mountain (Frodo with the Ring, Samwise and The Phial of Galadriel) is infinite draw; Ride Now, Ride to Gondor (Shadowfax, The Horn of Gondor and Éomer) makes infinite Riders once the Fellowship has broken.

Why Bant

Green is the Shire and the old forests; white is the kingdoms of Men and what they swear; blue is the Elves, foresight and departure. Twenty-five cards carry The One Ring, and nine creatures carry the Fellowship.

A complete 100-card Commander deck plus 5 tokens, tuned for Bracket 4, available as a digital print-yourself edition or a printed physical deck, and offered in 10 languages.